Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 20:14:17 UTC 
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:20 AM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> My proposal is that for 14.x we treat i386 like any other Tier 2
> platform.  That is, release images and packages would only be provided
> on a best-effort basis, and we would not guarantee providing them.  I
> think we should also stop shipping binary updates for the base system
> (freebsd-update) for 14.x for i386.
>

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html

contains Intel's plans for the future. They have removed support for booting
16/32-bit and non-UEFI from their firmware as of 2020...

Warner